The Lost Jerusalem

The Lost Jerusalem

12 September 2023By Miles LeesonBlog

Few authors write and subsequently publish their first attempted work, and Iris was no exception. Several novels were started and later discarded (almost certainly destroyed) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. We know very little about any of these save ‘Our Lady of the Bosky Gates’.

Iris Murdoch and The Laughing Cavalier

Iris Murdoch and The Laughing Cavalier

1 November 2021By Anne RoweBlog

The Cavalier could boast many distinguished visitors; his image has been gracing the Wallace’s sumptuous central gallery for decades. Among them was Iris Murdoch, visiting with her beloved father as a child and in the 1940s as an aspiring writer and philosopher …